OVHcloud VPS Price Increase 2026: What It Costs You Now (and How to Pay Less)

If you run a cloud VPS on OVHcloud, your bill changed on 1 October 2026 — and the OVHcloud VPS price increase is the sneaky kind. The hourly compute price did not move at all. What changed is that two things that used to be bundled into that price — your local disk and your public IPv4 address — are now separate lines on your invoice. For an identical setup, OVHcloud’s own figures put the increase at anywhere from 1.4% to 21.9%, depending on the size of your instance. And because OVHcloud bills on the first of the month, the first invoice carrying the new lines landed on 1 November — so if you have not looked at your bill closely yet, now is the time.

In this guide, we will work through exactly what changed, what it adds to four real instance sizes, why the smallest instances got hit hardest, what happened to Savings Plans, and — most usefully — the five moves that cut the extra cost back down. Nothing here needs a migration or a weekend of work. The biggest saving is a ten-minute check in the control panel.

OVHcloud VPS Price Increase: What Changed on October 1

OVHcloud announced the change on 25 August 2026, in two blog posts signed by founder Octave Klaba, after he had outlined it on social media on 10 August. The message was simple: from 1 October 2026, Public Cloud instances would move to an à la carte model. The price of the virtual machine — the compute — would not change. But local storage and the public IPv4 address, which had always been included in the instance price, would become two separate billable lines.

The change applies to Generation 3 Public Cloud instances — the B3, C3 and R3 families. If you are on Generation 2 or earlier (B2, C2, R2), your local storage is still included, and nothing changes for you yet. That distinction matters, and we will come back to it, because staying on Gen 2 is one of the legitimate ways to dodge the increase for now.

Two details in the announcement are easy to miss and both cost money. First, the IPv4 charge is per-second billing that applies “including when the address is not attached to an instance” — an idle floating IP still costs you about €1.97 a month. Second, the new storage line is not just an accounting split. The local disk becomes a storage class of its own, called Local Low Latency Storage, backed directly by the NVMe disk of the physical server hosting your instance. That sounds like marketing, but it has a practical consequence: the disk is now a resource you can reason about separately, and in one case — Flex instances — you can shrink it.

One clarification before we go further: OVHcloud calls these machines Public Cloud instances, and most of us just call them cloud VPS. That is the product this guide is about. Community reports also mention the same €2-ish IPv4 line appearing on OVHcloud’s classic VPS range, but the confirmed, documented change — with published rates — is the Public Cloud one, so that is what every figure below is based on.

How Much More You’ll Actually Pay

Percentages are abstract; euros are not. OVHcloud published the new rates per instance, and an independent analysis of those rates worked out the before-and-after monthly cost for four representative sizes. Here they are:

Instance	Before (per month)	After (per month)	Increase
c3-4 (smallest C3)	€33	€41	+€8 (+21.9%)
b3-8 (smallest B3)	€37	€45	+€8 (+19.5%)
b3-64	€299	€343	+€44 (+14.9%)
r3-1024 (largest R3)	€3,092	€3,137	+€45 (+1.4%)

All prices exclude VAT. The pattern is the giveaway: the increase is roughly a flat amount — the disk plus one IPv4 address — layered on top of whatever the compute costs. On a €33 instance that flat amount is a fifth of the bill. On a €3,092 instance it is a rounding error. That is why OVHcloud’s headline range is so wide, and why the customers who feel this most are the ones running small, cheap instances — which is to say, most of us.

There is also a sharp edge for the smallest plans. One user on the LowEndSpirit forum reports a grandfathered entry plan going from about €3.29 a month to about €5.30 — roughly a 61% jump — once the separate IPv4 line landed on it. That is a community report, not an OVHcloud figure, so treat it as an anecdote rather than a rate card. But it shows the same maths at work: when the base price is tiny, a fixed €2 address charge is enormous in percentage terms.

The New Three-Line Bill, Explained

From October, your OVHcloud Public Cloud invoice has three lines where it used to have one. Here is each of them:

Line	Rate (ex. VAT)	What it covers
Compute (B3 / C3 / R3 instance)	Unchanged	The virtual machine itself — vCPU and RAM, billed per hour as before
Local Low Latency Storage	€0.0001458 per GB per hour — about €0.11 per GB per month	The local NVMe disk, fixed at 50, 100, 200 or 400 GB depending on instance size, capped at 400 GB
Public IPv4 address	€0.0027 per hour — about €1.97 per month	One public IPv4 address, billed per second, even when it is not attached to any instance

The disk size is still fixed by the size of the instance — you do not choose it, and you cannot shrink a standard instance’s disk. A 50 GB disk costs about €5.50 a month at the new rate; 100 GB costs about €11; 200 GB about €22; 400 GB about €44. Add the IPv4 line and a typical small instance carries roughly €7.50 to €13 a month in new charges on top of the same compute price it always had.

Want the exact figure for your own instance? This one-liner does the maths:

disk_gb=100   # 50, 100, 200 or 400 on Gen 3, fixed by instance size
ipv4=1        # 1 if you keep a public IPv4 address

extra=$(awk -v d="$disk_gb" -v i="$ipv4" 'BEGIN { printf "%.2f", d * 0.11 + i * 1.97 }')
echo "Extra per month: €$extra"
# 100 GB disk + 1 IPv4 -> €12.97/month on top of the unchanged compute price

Run it with your own disk size and you will know, to the cent, what October added to your bill — before you open the invoice and wonder where the new lines came from.

Why Small Instances Got Hit Hardest

The reason is baked into the structure of the change: the two new charges are flat amounts, not percentages. Storage is priced per gigabyte and the address is a fixed monthly fee, so the extra cost is roughly the same whether your instance costs €33 or €3,000. Divide a flat €8 by a small base and you get 21.9%; divide a flat €45 by a huge base and you get 1.4%.

That is also why the percentage figures in headlines are misleading in both directions. “Up to 21.9% more” sounds dramatic, but on the smallest C3 it is €8 a month. “Only 1.4% more” sounds trivial, but on the largest R3 it is €45 a month — more money in absolute terms than the small instance’s entire increase. What matters is your own bill, not the range.

There is a second reason small users feel it more, and it has nothing to do with percentages: small instances are where the hobby projects, side projects and first servers live. Those are the workloads with the least slack in the budget and the least monitoring. A €45-a-month increase on a production box gets noticed in a finance review; an €8 increase on a side project sits unnoticed for months, quietly compounding to nearly €100 a year. If you run several small instances, add them up — the flat charges multiply with every instance, while the compute discount from a Savings Plan does not touch them.

What Happened to Savings Plans

This is the part of the change that will cost the most over time, and it got the least attention. OVHcloud simplified its Savings Plans grid in September 2026: the 1-month, 6-month and 24-month terms are gone. Only two terms remain — 12 months at 15% off and 36 months at 30% off.

That sounds like a small tidy-up. The expensive part is what the discount now covers: compute only. Local storage and IPv4 addresses are billed at their full price, excluding the discount, for the entire duration of your plan. So a 36-month commitment that used to cut your whole bill by 30% now cuts only the compute portion by 30%, while the storage and address lines stay at full price for three years.

Run the numbers before you renew or extend a plan. On a small instance, the storage and IPv4 lines can be a fifth of the bill — the part the discount no longer touches. The plan can still be worth it; 30% off compute is a real saving. But the saving is smaller than the headline percentage suggests, and on a small instance the gap is big enough to change the answer. If you signed a Savings Plan before October, check whether its renewal terms are the new ones — the discount on the new lines is gone either way.

How to Check Your November Bill

OVHcloud generates each Public Cloud project’s bill on the first day of the following month, so the bill dated 1 November 2026 is the first one with the two new lines on it. Here is how to read it without missing anything:

• Open the November invoice in the control panel (Billing → Invoices) and look for the two new line items: Local Low Latency Storage and Public IPv4. If you only see one, check whether the other is grouped under a different project — the lines are per project, not per account.
• Compare it against October’s invoice line by line. The compute line should be identical. If it is not, something else changed too — a resize, a new instance, or a Savings Plan renewal — and it is worth finding out which before you blame the unbundling.
• Count your IPv4 addresses, not your instances. Every address bills, including floating IPs sitting unattached and addresses on stopped instances. The control panel’s network section lists them; anything you do not recognise is €1.97 a month until you delete it.
• Check for stopped instances. OVHcloud’s billing guide is clear: a stopped or paused instance keeps being billed until it is deleted. Stopping a server you no longer use does not stop the invoice — it never did, and with the new lines it costs more than it used to.
• Note the VAT. Every rate in this guide — and in OVHcloud’s announcement — excludes VAT. Your invoice total will be higher than the figures here by your local VAT rate, so do not be surprised when the maths looks slightly off.

If you run several projects, repeat the check for each one. The unbundling applies per instance, so a second project with two small instances can quietly add €25 a month that no single invoice line makes obvious.

5 Ways to Cut the Extra Cost

The increase is real, but none of it is unavoidable. These are the five moves that actually work, roughly in order of how much they save for the least effort:

1. Switch to a Flex instance. This is the single best trick in the new model. Flex instances have their local disk fixed at 50 GB regardless of size — a b3-64 Flex has a 50 GB disk instead of a 400 GB one — so the storage-plus-IPv4 add-on stays at about €7 a month for every size. On a large instance, that turns a €44 disk line into a €5.50 one. If your workload does not need a big local disk, Flex is the cheapest way to run Gen 3.

2. Delete IPv4 addresses you are not using. An unattached floating IP bills €1.97 a month for nothing. Addresses on deleted or stopped instances bill too. Go through the network section, release anything that is not serving live traffic, and check again next month — this one takes five minutes and it is pure saving.

3. Ask whether the workload needs a public IPv4 at all. Not every server does. Internal-only services, workers behind a load balancer, and anything reachable over IPv6 can run without a public IPv4 address. A quick look at what is actually listening on the public interface tells you the truth:

# See which services actually listen on your public IPv4 (run as root)
ss -tlnp | grep -v 127.0.0.1
# If nothing needs the public address, the workload can run
# without one — saving about €1.97/month per address

Be honest with yourself here: if your site, your SSH access or your API depends on that address, keep it. €1.97 is cheap for reachability. But if the output is empty except for services you reach another way, that address is money for nothing.

4. Stay on Generation 2 while it lasts. B2, C2 and R2 instances still have local storage included in the price, so the unbundling does not touch them. If your workload runs fine on Gen 2, there is no reason to migrate it to Gen 3 and start paying the new lines. The honest caveat is that Gen 2 will not last forever — new features and new regions go to Gen 3 — so treat this as a delay, not a permanent escape, and use the time to plan the move on your terms.

5. Re-do the Savings Plan maths before you renew. The 12- and 36-month discounts now apply to compute only, so a plan that looked like 30% off your bill is now 30% off part of it. On a big instance that is still a good deal. On a small one, the storage and IPv4 lines you pay at full price eat a noticeable share of the saving — and locking in for 36 months locks in that gap too. Do the arithmetic with your real bill, not the headline percentage.

OVHcloud vs the Alternatives Now

The unbundling narrows OVHcloud’s price advantage, but it does not erase it — and the honest comparison depends on what you value. Entry-level prices from the main budget providers, checked in October and November 2026:

Provider	Entry plan	Price	Billing quirk to know
OVHcloud (Gen 3, after Oct 1)	Small B3/C3 + disk + IPv4	~€41–45/month	Disk and IPv4 now separate; Savings Plan discount covers compute only
Hetzner	CX23 (2 shared vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB NVMe)	€5.49/month (Germany/Finland)	Two 2026 price rises; new-server availability has been limited since June
DigitalOcean	Basic Droplet	$4/month	Hourly billing, no renewal jump, same rate every month
Vultr	Entry cloud compute	$5/month	Hourly billing; IPv4 included at this tier
Hostinger	KVM 1	$6.49/month intro, renews at $11.99	Intro price roughly doubles on renewal — read the renewal rate, not the sticker

Prices checked October–November 2026; re-check before you buy, because they move fast — Hetzner alone has repriced three times this year. The table is not a like-for-like benchmark: specs, regions and included traffic differ, and OVHcloud still includes unmetered outbound traffic in its European regions, which AWS and Azure both meter. The point is narrower than a ranking: OVHcloud’s small instances used to be cheap partly because everything was bundled, and that part of the advantage is gone. If you picked OVHcloud for the all-in price, re-run your comparison with the new lines included — the answer may still be OVHcloud, but it is no longer automatic.

Should You Stay or Switch?

For most people, the honest answer is: stay, but tidy up. The increase on a small instance is €8 a month, and a migration costs a weekend, a DNS change, and the risk of something breaking at 2 a.m. — which is a bad trade for €96 a year. Do the five moves above first. In most cases the Flex switch or the IPv4 clean-up alone takes the sting out.

Switching starts to make sense in three situations. First, if you run several small instances and the flat charges multiply across all of them — five instances at +€8 is €40 a month, and that is real money. Second, if you are on a grandfathered tiny plan where the increase is 50% or more of the base price; at that point the plan is no longer the bargain you signed up for. Third, if you are already unhappy — slow support, a region that does not suit you, a feature you need that OVHcloud does not have — then the price change is a good excuse to do a move you were already considering.

If you do move, move for the whole picture, not just the headline price. Check the renewal rate rather than the intro rate, check whether IPv4 is included or a separate line — OVHcloud is not the only provider unbundling it — and check egress pricing, because a cheap instance with metered traffic can cost more than a dearer one with unmetered traffic. Our comparison of the budget providers walks through exactly those traps, and our cheapest-VPS guide covers how to judge a low price honestly. Both are linked below.

The Bigger Picture: Why Every Host Is Raising Prices

OVHcloud is not acting alone, and the timing is not a coincidence. The whole hosting industry is repricing at once, and the driver sits upstream: memory. DDR5 prices have climbed steeply through 2026, with some kits up several hundred percent from their lows, and DRAM contract prices rose through the second half of the year. Hetzner has raised prices three times in 2026. OVHcloud raised its VPS range in April, its bare-metal servers in September — by up to 87% on its 2026 gaming range — and then unbundled Public Cloud in October. cPanel, Plesk and WHMCS are all raising licence prices for 2027 too.

We covered the memory shortage in depth in our guide to why VPS prices are rising in 2026, and the honest forecast there is worth repeating: analysts do not expect relief until late 2027 or 2028. That matters for your planning, because it means the October unbundling is probably not the last increase you will see from OVHcloud or anyone else. The providers that have already repriced are, perversely, the safer bets for the next year — they have adjusted, while the ones that have not are the ones with a rise still to come.

What that means in practice is simple: budget for increases, not just for today’s price. When you compare providers, compare the renewal and unbundled price, not the intro offer. And keep your setup portable — Docker, infrastructure as code, regular backups — so that the next price rise is a decision you make calmly, not a migration you are forced into.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the OVHcloud VPS price increase apply to the classic VPS range too?

The confirmed change covers Public Cloud Generation 3 instances (B3, C3, R3). OVHcloud’s classic VPS range is a separate product, and community reports mention the same separate IPv4 charge appearing there, but OVHcloud has not published the same detailed rate card for it. If you are on the VPS range, check your November invoice for a new IPv4 line rather than assuming either way.

Do I pay for an IPv4 address if my instance is stopped?

Yes. The IPv4 charge is per-second billing that applies even when the address is not attached to an instance, and OVHcloud’s billing guide says a stopped or paused instance keeps being billed until it is deleted. Stopping is not saving — deleting is.

Can I avoid the disk charge on Gen 3?

Not on a standard Gen 3 instance: the disk size is fixed by the instance size and the charge applies. Two real options exist: switch to a Flex instance, where the disk is fixed at 50 GB and the add-on stays around €7 a month whatever the size, or stay on a Gen 2 (B2, C2, R2) instance, where local storage is still included in the price.

Are Savings Plans still worth it?

Usually yes, but less than before. The 12-month plan gives 15% off and the 36-month plan 30% off — but only on compute. Storage and IPv4 are billed at full price for the whole plan duration. On a large instance the saving is still substantial; on a small one, run the numbers with your real bill before committing for three years.

Will OVHcloud raise prices again?

Probably, eventually. The memory shortage driving the industry-wide rises is forecast to last into late 2027 or 2028, and OVHcloud has already raised prices three times in 2026 across VPS, bare metal and Public Cloud. Nothing is announced, but budgeting for further increases is the prudent move — and keeping your setup portable is the best protection.

The Bottom Line

The OVHcloud VPS price increase is not a price rise in the usual sense — the compute did not get more expensive. It is an unbundling, and unbundling is harder to notice and easier to underestimate. From 1 October 2026, the disk and the IPv4 address that used to come with your Gen 3 instance are separate lines: about €0.11 per GB of disk per month and about €1.97 per IPv4 address per month. On a small instance that is up to 21.9% more; on a large one, 1.4%. Either way, the first bill carrying the new lines arrived on 1 November, so the time to look at it is now.

Do three things this week: open the November invoice and check the two new lines against October, delete any IPv4 address that is not serving live traffic, and look at whether a Flex instance would shrink your disk line. Those three checks take under half an hour and they are worth more than any amount of worrying about the percentage. And if you run more than one small instance, add the increases up before you decide whether to stay — the flat charges multiply, and the maths only gets clearer when you see the total.

Price rises are the background noise of hosting in 2026. The hosts that survive them are not the ones with the lowest sticker price — they are the ones whose bills you actually read. Start with this one.

Related reading: Why VPS Prices Are Rising in 2026: The RAM Shortage Explained · Cheapest VPS Without Sacrificing Performance · Best VPS Hosting Deals · VPS Hosting Cost: What You Really Pay · Contabo vs Hetzner vs DigitalOcean · How to Choose a VPS Server Location · What Is VPS Hosting?

Source: OVHcloud’s announcement, Public Cloud: à la carte model starting October 1, 2026 — verified loading 11 November 2026.